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A new preview for Man of Steel relieved fears that Zack Snyder was going to screw up Superman, reminding us that previews aren't movies, and open minds make for better summers. Today's lesson? The Lone Ranger and The Great Gatsby might not suck either, at least according to people who have seen more than two minutes of them.

In the upcoming New York Times Sunday Review, American novelist Amanda Filipacchi writes of a recent discovery that further evinces the issue of sexism as it persists in the literary world. This time, it's happening on Wikipedia.

The big celebrity-politician is almost upon us (only two more days!), and in the celebrity Hunger Games waged by news organizations far and wide (or at least around the Beltway), one news organization has landed the Katniss Everdeen of nerd prom.

All of her new songs have come attached to advertisements that promote Beyoncé's various and lucrative sponsorship deals. And now comes "Standing on the Sun," by way of a commercial for Beyoncé's H&M collection.

On The Daily Show last night, he explained how Fox has gone all willy nilly on the Constitution at the beginning of the controversial prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He also peppered his entire opening segment with spot-on pop culture references, Star Wars included.

Deadline reveals that Fox has snagged the rights to Guys and Dolls, the 1950 musical turned 1955 movie musical. And in the key roles of Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson, Fox wants Tatum and Gordon-Levitt. Who's next?

Reviews are starting to come in for Iron Man 3, and they are predominantly good. Still, according to one of the reviews, one cameo — by an ABC sitcom star — nearly ruins the whole thing. Who could it be?

The man of Scrubs-financed leisure has a successful new crowdfunding operation for his follow-up to Garden State, like Veronica Mars and others not long before it. But are we ready for a world in which we pay for something that doesn't exist, just because some rich celebrity asked us?

Sean Collier was remembered for his commitment to MIT, his love of country music, and his dedication to his job. The vice president offered words of condolence from the perspective of someone who had also lost a child, before offering a scathing indictment of the Tsarnaev brothers.

For the last two years, 20-year-old Shane Burcaw has shared his tales of life with spinal muscular atrophy on the wildly popular Tumblr called Laughing at My Nightmare. Now he's writing a memoir, which he just sold to Macmillan.

Sure, there would have been a little ratings spike had the dramatic coup worked, if Jennifer Lopez had really returned to replace Mariah Carey. But judges on these competition shows are silly distractions — the real problem is Idol

David Itzkoff's piece in The New York Times about nine letters sent from a 22-year-old (pre-Catcher in the Rye) J.D. Salinger to a young Toronto woman reveals that the author was flirty, a bit of a fibber, and maybe a little bit heartbroken.

This morning People magazine up and gave our lady Goop a new title. Which begs the question: Is People just blissfully out of touch with how most of the world feels? Or do Gwyneth and her hatable celebrity equals — ahem, Anne Hathaway — not quite deserve all the hate?

Unlike, the girls of, say, Spring Breakers, Watson's test in Sofia Coppola's movie is not about whether she can get all sexy. It seems like she will convincingly transform into the polar opposite of her Harry Potter heyday.

Not only did the show have a glaring anachronism on Sunday, but the AMC favorite slid in the ratings, reminding us, once again, that for all we care about the trials and tribulations of Don and the gang, many people do not. Also: Don Draper is a jerk.

The director was not "officially asked" by the studio behind the book adaptation to shoot the test footage, but he did — in an effort to show how much he wants the job. And he might just be the right man for it. As for Magic Mike's Pettyfer, well, he might be a little old.

More important than the whodunit are deeper and more thoughtful matters. It's an undeniably strange series, but between this and Top of the Lake, Sundance is having a knockout spring, giving us murder mysteries that say way more about life than they do about death.

It's the 449th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare (we think), and some parts of the Internet have gone positively Elizabethan to celebrate. Here are some fun ways to honor the Bard on his big day, online.

The first trailer for Thor: The Dark World begins the post-Avengers attack on the box office with character driven sequels bent on becoming legitimate franchises of their own. And yet, now that Man of Steel looks great again, it's hard not to wonder what the future for Marvel holds.

The photographs in Alex Vadukul's New York Times story about Neale Albert, a 75-year-old collector of miniature books, are as squee-inducing as anything you might see on Cute Overload—except, of course, the subjects pictured are not piglets or puppies but books.

For some reason — probably to get attention to the new Michael Bay movie — Michael Bay has been on an apology tour of late, and for some of the best work of a previously unabashed blockbuster film career. This needs to stop, Michael Bay.